I Can See Corruption From Your House
Sweet! A key Troopergate witness has just flipped, implicating Alaska Governor Sarah Palin:
Murlene Wilkes, the proprietor of Harbor Adjusting Services in Anchorage, had originally denied that she was pressured by Gov. Palin’s office to deny state trooper Mike Wooten’s claim for workers compensation benefits.
But Wilkes changed her story two weeks ago when she was subpoenaed [...]
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The Alarm: “Strength”
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“I would that I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have
in fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting.” —Twelfth Night, 1.3.99-100
Sarah Palin Interview Generator!
Heh-heh. I love the Internet.
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Lyle Lovett: “That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas)”
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Ay, but he’ll have but a year in all these ducats: he’s a very
fool and a prodigal.” —Twelfth Night, 1.3.25-26
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Sen. Obama’s debate points documented:
Fer It Afore He Was Agin It
Sen. John McCain’s campaign image relies almost exclusively on his alleged hatred for state earmarks in federal spending. His most famous example, used in last night’s debate, is that of a study of grizzly bear DNA. Today’s punchline, of course, is that he actually voted in favor of that very expenditure:
Senator John McCain has frequently [...]
Pointing The Finger
Back in February of this year, then-governor Eliot Spitzer reminded us who bears a lot of the blame for what has since become a looming finacial crisis:
Predatory lending was widely understood to present a looming national crisis. This threat was so clear that as New York attorney general, I joined with colleagues in the other [...]
Please, Please, Please
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson literally kneeled before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as he begged her support yesterday for a Wall Street bail-out agreement:
Friday morning, on CBS’s “The Early Show,” Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the lead Democratic negotiator, said the bailout had been derailed by internal Republican politics.
“I didn’t know I was going to be [...]
